I've been able to do this many times before, just been a while. And, normally because these types of experiences are not exciting or seemingly of interest, I never discuss them with anyone.

It is what I have practiced for decades on the other side as a means to stay in lucidity indefinitely. That is, controlling the emotional state to make sure peak emotions never arise. lol, it is like controlling your emotions, but not 'emotions' in the normal sense, as we both know, but emotions in a conscious/divine sense, as they are not accompanied by bodily chemicals.

So, it would be very much like learning how to consciously control the inner self. I have a new feeling of this that I have been equating it to. It is consciously controlling aspects of the subconscious. It is consciously 'playing' within the subconscious 'constructs'.